From fb391599f2eaf22197e3e914187c957ef7eeb4c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Walle Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:41:02 -0700 Subject: Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 189df0bcab9..0a3fed44524 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -497,6 +497,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic. + crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset] + [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory + in the running system. The syntax of range is + start-[end] where start and end are both + a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also + Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example. + cs4232= [HW,OSS] Format: ,,,,, -- cgit v1.2.3